MY580 short courses are primarily aimed at PhD students but may be taken by Masters students. As part of the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs), the Department reserves some places for non-LSE external participants.
Events in this collection
Design-based causal inference in observational and experimental settings
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM
Free
Measuring policy positions of political agents
Mon, Nov 9, 10:00 AM
Free
Data Visualization: Principles and Practice for Effective Storytelling
Mon, Nov 23, 10:00 AM
Free
Machine learning and probability: missing data solutions and analyses
Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM
Free
Measuring policy positions of political agents
Tue, Jun 16, 10:00 AM
Free
Small-n and comparative case study design
Wed, Jun 3, 10:00 AM
Free
Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python
Wed, May 20, 10:00 AM
Free
Agentic AI for Social Science and Data Science Research
Thu, May 14, 10:00 AM
Free
Fieldwork preparation and logistics: funding, budgets, ethics
Wed, Apr 1, 10:00 AM
Free
How to write a qualitative methods section for academic manuscripts
Mon, Mar 30, 10:00 AM
Free
Applied large language models for social science research
Wed, Mar 4, 10:00 AM
Free
Questionnaire and question design (survey methods)
Mon, Feb 23, 10:00 AM
Free
Agent-Based Modeling
Wed, Jan 28, 10:00 AM
Free
Participatory Methods
Tue, Jun 10, 10:00 AM
Free
Creating Social Science Datasets using Public APIs
Wed, Jun 4, 10:00 AM
Free
Modern Text Analysis and NLP with Python
Tue, May 27, 10:00 AM
Free
Creative Research Methods – an introduction
Wed, May 21, 10:00 AM
Free
Agent-Based Modeling
Tue, May 20, 10:00 AM
Free
Data Visualisations
Wed, May 14, 10:00 AM
Free
Measuring Policy Positions of Political Agents
Tue, May 6, 10:00 AM
Free
Applied Bayesian Data Analysis for Social Science
Tue, Apr 1, 10:00 AM
Free
How to Write a Qualitative Methods Section for Academic Manuscripts
The Department is an international centre of excellence in social science methodology. We offer postgraduate programmes in social research methods, applied social data science, and demography. We also run courses for students across LSE covering research design, qualitative, quantitative and computational methods. Our faculty are leading researchers in sociology, political science, international relations, anthropology, economics, psychology, criminology, and statistics.